David van der Spoel 

1963: Birth

1988: M. Sc. in Phyics, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

1996: Ph. D. in Chemistry with Prof. Berendsen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

1996/1997: PostDoc, university of Groningen in the same group

1997: Appointment at the Department of Biochemistry of Uppsala University, Sweden.

2003: Transfer to Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden.

2003: Docent in Chemistry with specialisation in Molecular Biophysics

2008: Professor of Biology with specialization in Computational Molecular Biophysics  

2012: Chairman of the board, Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science